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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
A three-part series that documents the rise and fall of Quikr so you don’t make the same mistakes this startup did.
This is the final of a three-part series that documents the rise and fall of Quikr, an online classifieds business that once was a unicorn, which raised hundreds of millions of dollars, only to end up an entangled mess. The series gives an account of 16 years of Quikr—the idea, pivots, frauds and the painful decline. As a learning. For fellow entrepreneurs so they don’t repeat the same mistakes, and for students of India’s emerging entrepreneurship ecosystem.
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“I just can’t believe it was a scam,” utters an artist, almost to herself. “I thought I had found a treasure.”
She …
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Big AI moves in the Middle East this week, Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf files for bankruptcy and other updates.
Peace talks bring relief to the Emirates, but there’s still a ways to go before full-scale recovery.
